Elzbieta Bienkowska is being sworn in as Poland's new Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Development and Transport, during a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw November 27, 2013. REUTERS/Peter Andrews
WARSAW (Reuters) - When Polish deputy prime minister Elzbieta Bienkowska applied to study at a prestigious university in Warsaw, she was rejected after one of the interview panel questioned how she could study and raise a family as well.
The next year, she applied again and was asked the same thing. She replied by inquiring if the panel would put that question to male applicants. She was accepted.
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